St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1887-01-29
Senator Davis Tickles the Members of
the Union League Club With
an Address.
Mr.. Jones Said to Have Paid 5000 to
Induce Mrs. Conlin to Re-
turn His Desk.
seaton's Case Coming Up NJ onday--An
Attempt TO be Made to Have
1t Put Over.
Reunion of Dartmouth Alumni
Grand Jury Vfctims--Vari-
GUS Other Matters.
CLUBS ARE TRUMPS.
Senator IeayiS' interesting Talk TO
the MON H.eague.

the Union League.
The members of the Union League gath
cred in force last evening at their club
rooms 10 hear the promised address by
Senator Davis. During the early part of
the evening the gentlemen enjoyed sort
OF Republican love feast. Senator Davis
and President NOrthrpo occupied divan
and were in close converse, Loren Fletcher
smiled on the faithful, Chairman Stratton
had a kind word for everybody. including
the reporters. and the parlor presented a
scene OF fraternal love that was good to
see. President Stratton called the league
to order and introduced Senator Davis, who,
somewhat contrary to expectation, did not
talk politics, but delivered highly inter-
eSting and instructive address on
CLUBS.
He defined the polite al club as an insti-
tuition designed to supply the DEFICIENCIES OF
weak government. The senator then
hastily glanced over the history of the club
as political organization. deity noting the
power of the guilds of the sixteenth CEN
tury, and thus bringing his hearers to the
latter part of the last century. when he
sGok up and gave detailed account of the
organization and power Of the Jacobin club
of Paris. With the affairs of this power
full political society the gentleman enter
tanned his hearers for almost an hour
The JacObin club was thoroughly organized;
it was not democratic, for it was one of
the most expensive clubs in France; it
encouraged the formation of political
clubs among all classes of society,
down to the very lowest and
all of these it took under its
protection, by which means it became the
greatest political power in France. and was
the government de facto. as the national as
sembly was in semblance. Every decree
that the convention passed was drafted by
the committees of the Jacobins; every law
that was made first received the approval of
these mentors, and though in their later
history they were cruel and their aims
became perverted, yet among the
results they accomplished were the
establishment and maintenance of
free graded district and normal schools
throughout France. They founded the con-
serVatory of music, the institute. the great
special schools of technology, the museum
of natural history; they maintained the mu-
scum Of the Louvre-and above all they
BROKE THE POWER
of the salon and elevated the great mass of
the subjects of their country to citizenship.
This was the work of the most perfectly Or
ganized political club that ever existed in
the history Of the world.
The lecture was replete with solid thought
and abouuded in striking metaphors, and at
its conclusion the applause testified the
pleasure it gave.
President NOrthrop was called, and made
very witty apology, during which he said
that Senator Davis had carried us from an
cient to modern times, and all over Europe,
TO discover that 'clubS are trumpS."